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Evidence to Policy, Advocacy and Action Type of Funding: Grant Funder: USAID Duration: Nov 2011 – Oct 2013 There are considerable data available on Maternal and Child Health issues in Pakistan in the form of research studies, routine surveys and service delivery data from programs and projects. However, although these sources of data are mostly in the public domain, they are seldom collated or analyzed. Thus, decision makers are seldom able to find required data when making critical programming and policy decisions. This grant allows our group to collate available data on family planning and childhood immunization in Pakistan, analyzed these data and make the results available to decision makers from politicians to government officials to media personnel. We are also asking these decision makers to identify the information they require in their routine work with family planning and immunization. As a result, we are working with the Health Departments of Sindh and Punjab provinces and the Population Welfare Department of Sindh province in analyzing their service delivery data in comparison with service uptake as depicted in the surveys. Information from these analyses is shared with government officials, donors, politicians, media personnel and communities for use in their routine decisions about health.
How women Acquire and Process Information about Reproductive Health and How that Information Evolves over their Lifetime Type of Funding: Grant Funder: Research and Advocacy Fund of the DFID (UKAid) Duration: Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 This a mixed qualitative/ quantitative study that looks at 5 groups of women (pre-marriage, immediate post marriage – 3 months post marriage, 6-12 months post marriage, around a year post marriage and those married 10+ years) and examines how they acquire, process and use information about contraception, fertility, pregnancy, birthing, nutrition and other reproductive health issues.
Community Trial of Social Mobilization to Overcome the Three Delays that lead to Poor Obstetric Care and Maternal Deaths in an Extremely Poor and Underserved Area Type of Funding: Grant Funder: Research and Advocacy Fund of the DFID (UKAid) Duration: Jan 2012 – April 2013 This a trial of social mobilization to overcome the 3 delays that lead to maternal and neonatal deaths. Our partner, the Rural Support Program Network (which reaches around 5 million households or around 30 million population with social mobilization for development and community oversight) is applying its social mobilization approach to promote early recognition of danger signs and preparedness for emergency obstetric care to seek to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. RADS is helping provide and implement the study design.
Analysis of Large Scale Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services Delivery Programs Type of funding: Commercial Funder: The Marie Stopes Society (Pakistan affiliate of MSI) Duration: Variable, multiple projects The Marie Stopes Society has emerged as the largest single provider of family planning services with a clientele that is slightly larger than either the Health or the Population Welfare Ministries. They are employing several different approaches to large scale service delivery as community based experiments/ research studies. We are partnering with MSS to design and conduct these studies and to analyze data from the studies and from service delivery to develop inferences about scaling up family planning services in Pakistan and about outcomes of these interventions. Other work that we are helping MSS evaluate is: use of different outreach/ mixed facility-outreach models, use of vouchers to overcome poverty in accessing FP services

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